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Tokens

Dread Summons

Sorcery

Each player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. For each creature card put into a graveyard this way, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield tapped.

1 week ago

hkhssweiss is totally right - Tower and Vessel are always welcome and since Tower can be tapped for mana right away - it doesn't slow You down. If ya wanna mill You opponents think about Bloodchief Ascension, Dread Summons (Brrrrraaaainnnsss), and Profane Memento (I like to build decks different way than the majority of players so when I bumped into Memento by accident at M15 prerelease - I decided to put it in my Phenax modern deck. Effect? Far beyond expectations!).

4 months ago

Sporkity, thank you for the valueable inputs, currently making some changes to the deck.

I removed Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder and Blasting Station for now, since they are a bit slow (endrek takes a full turn to BEGIN functioning, station in my games has been mostly a worse Blood Artist/Zulaport - also wont kill big creatures and cant be reanimated to combo). Also removed Disciple of Griselbrand since he had little synergy with the deck and often was a stall card.

Added Dread Summons, Tortured Existence and Bog Witch. Like you said, I needed more discard/grave-filling outlets to reanimate big guys early - many times i was sitting early game with a Victimize and no way to discard my 7-drops.

Will soon experiment with the others you suggested. Only feel like Stinkweed Imp is a bit underwhelming - I lose a draw, hes mostly a chump blocker in battlefield, while other discards are much more recursive: generate tokens(call the bloodline, skirk ridge exh, dread summons, haunted dead), disrupt opponents (Mindslicer, Rotting Rats) or filtering (undead glatiator, geier reach, tortured existence).

Stitcher's Supplier seems like a very interesting addition, will test as soon as I get my hands in one. Also from M19 is Desecrated Tomb, which is a maybe, what do you think?

4 months ago

Deck looks like a lot of fun! I could be wrong but at first glace this deck seems like it might have a slow start and the infinite combos seem a bit unreliable. I would mostly focus on cheating out your bigger blacker creatures, mana creating is sooooo gooood. And it doesn't seem like it has to many ways to throw things into the graveyard initially, so I've got a few suggestions for you:

Dread Summons - Builds a board of sacrificial zombie tokens for each of your many creatures discarded

Grave Scrabbler - Good way to toss some creature into the graveyard early and for little cost

Sands of Delirium - Just before your turn starts spend your extra mana to build up that graveyard

Stinkweed Imp - As well as other dredge effects might help you out a lot

Grave Scrabbler - Is discard is your shit? then madness might also be your shit

Aetherworks Marvel - Just a fun suggestion, but might actually be interesting here with so many creatures entering and leaving the battlefield just having a every once in awhile take another turn could be real strong. Might also help with going infinite.

As you said graveyard hate might hurt... like a lot... BUT in commander graveyard hate tends come in the form of lands (unless the people you play with main deck Rest in Peace good luck with dealing with that in mono black) so might want to think about running lands like Field of Ruin and Ghost Quarter. Although this depends on your meta if no one is playing graveyard hate you're golden!

9 months ago

Karador was the first commander I tried to build. There is a big problem with him, his cost is absurdly high even with the discount. You need a lot of creatures in your graverd to make him affordable and even after that you will probably be out of mana when you finally cast him so you'll have to wait until your next turn to start using its ability.

You will need to make a special effort to fill your graveyard and run a really high count of creatures on the deck, so try to change any of the tools of the deck to utility creatures, that way you will also have a recurring toolbox in your graveyard.

I'm sure there are many other cards that would be great in the optimized version of this deck, but these are the ones I can think of right now. Also, I am not extremely familiar with the current meta of MTGO(?) 1v1 commander, so there may be cards that are good because of the meta. You will want to do some research and you will definitely make changes as you play. Have Fun!

9 months ago

I think the deck is missfocused, some of your cards cards that want you to have a big graveyard, and other cards that eat your graveyard away, those two mechanics don't work well together, on the other hand your commander want's to keep your graveyard small so your oppnent have fewer options to choose a bad card.You can consider changing your commander to someone who benefits more from dredging (or at least is not hindered by dredging) like Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Karador, Ghost Chieftain, The Gitrog Monster, The Mimeoplasm or some other, or change the strategy of the deck to use your graveyard as an spendable resource (Delve, Unearth, Scavenge, Flashback, Aftermath, Embalm, Eternalize...).

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